The Library
1774 works catalogued century by century, from the literature the Bible was written among to the present — each with a note on what it is, why it lasted, and where to read it.
701–800
2 works
c. 711–716
Latin
The Venerable Bede · c. 673 – 735
Seven books on the Song, opening with an attack on Julian of Eclanum for reading it as a wedding poem, and closing with an anthology of Gregory the Great on the same text assembled so that readers without a library could still have him.
c. 780
Latin
Paul the Deacon · c. 720 – c. 799
The Lombard historian's life of the pope who had sent the mission to the English and negotiated with his own people. It carries the story of the dove at Gregory's ear dictating what he wrote, and the account of the slave boys in the Roman market.
2 of 1774 works